If you are smart, don't buy too many toys that make loud noises. It will only drive you bugshit down the road.
Kids can't see in color for a while. There are a lot of neat toys specifically designed in neutral colors in high contrast. I know my daughter prefered these toys for a long time.
Canon Powershot cameras rock because they can take short, high quality movies with sound that are emailable. They are also built very tough. I think I've dropped my Powershot S110 about a hundred times and it's still working perfectly. They are also compatible with Gphoto2.
They make this thing that's like a pacifier leash that you can attach to your kids shirt. VERY VERY cool. It means that your child will learn how to get their own pacifier when they want it, and it will always be handy.
DO NOT waste money on a basinette. You'll end up getting rid of it in a year. Start out with a decent crib that will last 3 years. On that note, do not let the baby get used to sleeping in bed with you and the missus. You'll have hell to pay breaking them of that habit.
Onesizes rule. Get plenty of onesizes.
Get a good electric swing. They come in very handy. Start your baby out early in the swing so they get programmed to understand that it's nappytime when they are put into it. It's great when you and your wife need time together.
A lot of babies are lactose intolerant at birth, and don't get comfy with lactose until later. If you are going the formula route, lactose free similac mixes very very fast. We carry a few Playtex VentAire bottles with us with water in them, and a can of this stuff wherever we go. You can make a bottle in about 15 seconds with practice.
Get a diaper genie. NOW. Trust me. These things make life so much easier.
Huggies rock, and are usually cheaper than anything else. Don't get sucked into the cloth diaper BS. It's a massive pain in the ass and not worth the time.
Get very nervous if your child get diarea and it lasts for longer than a few days. Take them to the doctor. Constant diarea can mean that they have a virus and it will dehydrate them very very fast no matter how much pedialyte you push in them.
Do a lot of research before selecting a pediatrician. Try asking your wife's OBGYN who they recommend. They'll probably know who in the area is the best choice.
Your wife will act nuts and insane for a while. Try to be patient and not drink too much, even though it does help.
Do NOT get a cheap stroller. It will only piss you off in the same way that very cheap tires on a car will piss you off in the way they want to follow every line and groove in the road.
Decide early on if baby is going to bottle feed, or breast feed. From tons of recent experience,
Playtex VentAire bottle absolutely rock. You can get a 3 pack at wal-mart for 10 bucks. DO NOT get Doctor Brown bottles. They are a shitty pain in the ass to clean, expensive, and DO NOT work as advertized no matter what Oprah says. Nobody should be watching Oprah anymore anyway.
But there are also a lot of us that simply don't give a rats ass about world domination. Linux doesn't really HAVE to compete with microsoft. Linux/OSS isn't going anywhere. Ever. The fact that it is directly competing with microsoft is not only amusing, it's gravy. An interesting extra that gives me hours of amusing things to read. Linux/OSS is not afraid of microsoft and doesn't have to be. It's free. It can't be bought out. It's too deeply entrenched at this point to go any direction but up and sideways fast. The type of user that wants a more fine grained control over their computer is always going to have a better option than expensive commercial solutions. Period.
What's wrong with that exactly? It's free! You don't HAVE to use it. It may surprise you to know that a lot of developers aren't interested in "world domination" or "beating up microsoft". They just had a specific need that they addressed with some code, and decided to unselfishly share it with the world. If that's not good enough for you, go buy something that is.
It is official; My bitchy girlfriend confirms: Underpants is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Underpants community when IDC confirmed that Underpants market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent My bitchy girlfriend survey which plainly states that Underpants has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Underpants is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a cnn war analyst to predict Underpants's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Underpants faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Underpants because Underpants is dying. Things are looking very bad for Underpants. As many of us are already aware, Underpants continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers The Jolly Green Giant and Lucky Leprachaun only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Brazierres leader Anna Nicole Smith states that there are 7000 users of Brazierres. How many users of Edible Underwear are there? Let's see. The number of Brazierres versus Edible Underwear posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Edible Underwear users. Chin Dildoes posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Edible Underwear posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Chin Dildoes. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the Underpants market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of K-Mart, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by Sears and Roebuck who sell another troubled OS. Now Sears and Roebuck is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Underpants has steadily declined in market share. Underpants is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Underpants is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Underpants continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Underpants is dead.
Perl is just another way of doing things. Plus, there are a lot of perlizens that just don't want to bother learning PHP. Hardware is pretty cheap compared with development time. You can bang something out in perl that's reasonably good on resources in a ridiculously short time.
Make sure you recommend CVS, or some other type of versioning system to save hell down the road.
Enforce under penalty of death or termination of employment that DOCUMENTATION IS PART OF DEVELOPMENT. I've had many a contract where I've basically just had to say "screw it" and redo a rats nest of undocumentated code because of zero documentation.
An automatic license generation website. You just fill in what you want, check some boxes, come up with a snappy name, and get your new license mailed to you. Kinda like those lame make your own computer virus programs, but lamer. I'd make myself a boobies license that required boobie pics before you could look at source. Kinda like an NDT&AA.
The full name of THIS squid is Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni Robson. It's the only species in it's genus, and it barely gets 2m long. This doesn't even begin to touch Architeuthis Clarkei (the giant squid). This is perhaps a really lame attempt at an april fools joke?
Recoil mitigation? On a Laser weapon? I don't get it, where does the recoil come from.
This weapon is pushing a gas mixture from a tank under pressure through a valve at mach 1.0, allowing it to expand in a chamber and accelerate to over mach 4, then redirecting the flow back to an electric pump that puts the gas back into the tank it started out from in the first place. The whole process taking about 40ms.
Really, I don't see a need for this kind of weapon. I don't see it being as effective as our current rifles, unless this is intended as an anti-vehicular weapon as opposed to an anti-personel weapon.
You'd have a weapon that depends on the half-life of it's heat/energy source, need no ammo ever, that works at light speed, delivering 170 shots per second in a 1.3 cm beam contantly for 6 months before needing recharged. If you don't see that as being more effective than our current rifles, you obviously didn't read the article. Each shot would have significantly more energy than say, a nato 308. The only thing this weapon won't replace (until they make a bigger one) is some of the larger 50 cal stuff that's good out past 3000 meters.
The only use for this I see, would be a no-recoil sniper weapon, using precise shots to the head or heart. But then there's that odd "recoil mitigation" hurdle that I still don't understand the cause of.
Once again, if you had read the pdf file instead of writing moderation friendly tripe, you'd understand. I guess it comes down to the fact that there is too much we don't know about what the weapon will do.
If there was an actual need to speak these numbers, we'd have some slick as chit way to pronounce them. Necessity is the MUTHA of invention. Most people go around talking in base ten. Most people have no need at all for anything but base ten. Go figure it's what we have words for.
How fast THIS link can shut up the idiot BSD is dying crowd.:) It's like the ultimate middle finger to any anti-bsd mouth-breather.:) I suggest bookmarking it and spreading it liberally. You'll NEVER hear a single convincing arguement to explain away the obvious stability advantage FreeBSD has over EVERY other OS that has ever existed.
I found the article of little use at all for a few reasons:
I think I've had an installworld fail ONCE in 7 years, and I think it was because I hadn't noticed that the make buildworld failed.
As far as cruft in the OS laying around, I had a system that went from 2.2.8 to 4.0 stable with no problems. Part of the love of freebsd is not having to wipe partitions.
To sum things up, most of the people I know that have had weird problems with things laying around don't do two very important things:
#1 Run mergemaster
#2 Read/usr/src/UPDATING
As far as I'm concerned, the article this story references is completely pointless.:)
A phone that can track RFID tags or something similar that you yourself put in your key fob with your carkeys, in your wallet, surgically implant in your pets, girlfriend, etc. I think this would be a very fast growing and neato market.
If we haven't met face to face with other intelligent beings because they made one of these things first.;) This could be the scientific achievment that starts the endgame. Spooky eh?
It is worth the 30 or so bucks you might have to spend on the computer hardware book that you would need to build great system. Between pricewatch.coma and onsale.com I put together a dual pent pro 200 system with 2 scsi 2 gigs, 96 megs of ram, a 20 inch (fixed frequency) monitor, and a ET6000 video card (special rom for the monitor) for about $1050 12 months ago. It's still a very fast system.
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re: Oh yeah, and the stock has been up past 93 to
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One thing we did recently at MindSpring was give our customers using the unlimited plan 5 megs of webspace ( there used to be none with this plan ) without raising the price of the plan. We also doubled the commercial webhosting space without increasing the price of that plan. We work hard to improve our product offering as we get better deals on things and improve the way we do things.
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America is far too keen on pushing it's views down everyone else's throats and bombing/threatening anyone who doesn't agree with them.
This reminds me of a quote from a few years ago
before our current repressive republican regime.
"The US is the jehovah's witness of the world, but
we have bombs instead of bicycles."
I want to credit Carville with that, but I'm not
100 percent sure he said it.
If you are smart, don't buy too many toys that
make loud noises. It will only drive you bugshit
down the road.
Kids can't see in color for a while. There are a lot
of neat toys specifically designed in neutral colors
in high contrast. I know my daughter prefered these
toys for a long time.
Canon Powershot cameras rock because they can take
short, high quality movies with sound that are
emailable. They are also built very tough. I think
I've dropped my Powershot S110 about a hundred
times and it's still working perfectly. They are
also compatible with Gphoto2.
They make this thing that's like a pacifier leash
that you can attach to your kids shirt. VERY VERY
cool. It means that your child will learn how to
get their own pacifier when they want it, and it
will always be handy.
DO NOT waste money on a basinette. You'll end up
getting rid of it in a year. Start out with a
decent crib that will last 3 years. On that note,
do not let the baby get used to sleeping in bed
with you and the missus. You'll have hell to pay
breaking them of that habit.
Onesizes rule. Get plenty of onesizes.
Get a good electric swing. They come in very handy.
Start your baby out early in the swing so they
get programmed to understand that it's nappytime
when they are put into it. It's great when you
and your wife need time together.
A lot of babies are lactose intolerant at birth,
and don't get comfy with lactose until later.
If you are going the formula route, lactose free
similac mixes very very fast. We carry a few
Playtex VentAire bottles with us with water in
them, and a can of this stuff wherever we go. You
can make a bottle in about 15 seconds with
practice.
Hope This Helps.
Get a diaper genie. NOW. Trust me. These things
make life so much easier.
Huggies rock, and are usually cheaper than anything
else. Don't get sucked into the cloth diaper BS.
It's a massive pain in the ass and not worth the
time.
Get very nervous if your child get diarea and it
lasts for longer than a few days. Take them to
the doctor. Constant diarea can mean that they
have a virus and it will dehydrate them very
very fast no matter how much pedialyte you push
in them.
Do a lot of research before selecting a pediatrician.
Try asking your wife's OBGYN who they recommend.
They'll probably know who in the area is the
best choice.
Your wife will act nuts and insane for a while.
Try to be patient and not drink too much, even
though it does help.
Do NOT get a cheap stroller. It will only piss
you off in the same way that very cheap tires on
a car will piss you off in the way they want
to follow every line and groove in the road.
Decide early on if baby is going to bottle feed,
or breast feed. From tons of recent experience,
Playtex VentAire bottle absolutely rock. You can
get a 3 pack at wal-mart for 10 bucks. DO NOT
get Doctor Brown bottles. They are a shitty pain
in the ass to clean, expensive, and DO NOT work
as advertized no matter what Oprah says. Nobody
should be watching Oprah anymore anyway.
Hope this helps.
But there are also a lot of us that simply don't
give a rats ass about world domination. Linux
doesn't really HAVE to compete with microsoft.
Linux/OSS isn't going anywhere. Ever. The fact that
it is directly competing with microsoft is not only
amusing, it's gravy. An interesting extra that gives
me hours of amusing things to read. Linux/OSS is not
afraid of microsoft and doesn't have to be. It's
free. It can't be bought out. It's too deeply
entrenched at this point to go any direction but
up and sideways fast. The type of user that wants
a more fine grained control over their computer
is always going to have a better option than
expensive commercial solutions. Period.
What's wrong with that exactly? It's free! You
don't HAVE to use it. It may surprise you to know
that a lot of developers aren't interested in
"world domination" or "beating up microsoft". They
just had a specific need that they addressed with
some code, and decided to unselfishly share it with
the world. If that's not good enough for you, go
buy something that is.
It is official; My bitchy girlfriend confirms: Underpants is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Underpants community when IDC confirmed that Underpants market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent My bitchy girlfriend survey which plainly states that Underpants has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Underpants is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a cnn war analyst to predict Underpants's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Underpants faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Underpants because Underpants is dying. Things are looking very bad for Underpants. As many of us are already aware, Underpants continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers The Jolly Green Giant and Lucky Leprachaun only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Brazierres leader Anna Nicole Smith states that there are 7000 users of Brazierres. How many users of Edible Underwear are there? Let's see. The number of Brazierres versus Edible Underwear posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Edible Underwear users. Chin Dildoes posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Edible Underwear posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Chin Dildoes. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the Underpants market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of K-Mart, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by Sears and Roebuck who sell another troubled OS. Now Sears and Roebuck is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Underpants has steadily declined in market share. Underpants is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Underpants is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Underpants continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Underpants is dead.
Fact: Underpants is dying
So is your mom?
heheh, couldn't resist.
Perl is just another way of doing things. Plus,
there are a lot of perlizens that just don't want
to bother learning PHP. Hardware is pretty cheap
compared with development time. You can bang
something out in perl that's reasonably good on
resources in a ridiculously short time.
Make sure you recommend CVS, or some other type
of versioning system to save hell down the road.
Enforce under penalty of death or termination of
employment that DOCUMENTATION IS PART OF DEVELOPMENT.
I've had many a contract where I've basically just
had to say "screw it" and redo a rats nest of
undocumentated code because of zero documentation.
damn, you hit that nail right on the head.
An automatic license generation website. You just
fill in what you want, check some boxes, come up
with a snappy name, and get your new license mailed
to you. Kinda like those lame make your own computer
virus programs, but lamer. I'd make myself a boobies
license that required boobie pics before you could
look at source. Kinda like an NDT&AA.
The full name of THIS
squid is Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni Robson. It's the
only species in it's genus, and it barely gets 2m
long. This doesn't even begin to touch Architeuthis
Clarkei (the giant squid). This is perhaps a really
lame attempt at an april fools joke?
Recoil mitigation? On a Laser weapon? I don't get it, where does the recoil come from.
This weapon is pushing a gas mixture from a tank
under pressure through a valve at mach 1.0, allowing
it to expand in a chamber and accelerate to over
mach 4, then redirecting the flow back to an
electric pump that puts the gas back into the tank
it started out from in the first place. The whole
process taking about 40ms.
Really, I don't see a need for this kind of weapon. I don't see it being as effective as our current rifles, unless this is intended as an anti-vehicular weapon as opposed to an anti-personel weapon.
You'd have a weapon that depends on the half-life
of it's heat/energy source, need no ammo ever,
that works at light speed, delivering 170 shots
per second in a 1.3 cm beam contantly for 6
months before needing recharged. If you don't see
that as being more effective than our current
rifles, you obviously didn't read the article.
Each shot would have significantly more energy
than say, a nato 308. The only thing this weapon
won't replace (until they make a bigger one) is
some of the larger 50 cal stuff that's good out
past 3000 meters.
The only use for this I see, would be a no-recoil sniper weapon, using precise shots to the head or heart. But then there's that odd "recoil mitigation" hurdle that I still don't understand the cause of.
Once again, if you had read the pdf file instead
of writing moderation friendly tripe, you'd
understand.
I guess it comes down to the fact that there is too much we don't know about what the weapon will do.
Unless we read the article, yeah.
Starring Tanto, Frankenstein, and Tarzan from
the hit TV show "As World Turn".
If there was an actual need to speak these numbers,
we'd have some slick as chit way to pronounce them.
Necessity is the MUTHA of invention. Most people go
around talking in base ten. Most people have no
need at all for anything but base ten. Go figure
it's what we have words for.
At least, the reason real admins run FreeBSD. A fanboy like yourself probably wouldn't understand.
How fast THIS link can shut :) It's like :)
up the idiot BSD is dying crowd.
the ultimate middle finger to any anti-bsd mouth-breather.
I suggest bookmarking it and spreading it liberally.
You'll NEVER hear a single convincing arguement to
explain away the obvious stability advantage FreeBSD
has over EVERY other OS that has ever existed.
I found the article of little use at all for a few
/usr/src/UPDATING
:)
reasons:
I think I've had an installworld fail ONCE in 7
years, and I think it was because I hadn't noticed
that the make buildworld failed.
As far as cruft in the OS laying around, I had a
system that went from 2.2.8 to 4.0 stable with no
problems. Part of the love of freebsd is not having to wipe partitions.
To sum things up, most of the people I know that
have had weird problems with things laying around
don't do two very important things:
#1 Run mergemaster
#2 Read
As far as I'm concerned, the article this story
references is completely pointless.
This effort looks a lot like Gentoo migration
damage control. Like a "see what we can do".
I personally applaud it.
A phone that can track RFID tags or something
similar that you yourself put in your key fob
with your carkeys, in your wallet, surgically
implant in your pets, girlfriend, etc. I think
this would be a very fast growing and neato
market.
.....look at what happened to Bernie S.
http://www.2600.com/law/bernie.html
If we haven't met face to face with other ;) This could be the
intelligent beings because they made one of
these things first.
scientific achievment that starts the
endgame. Spooky eh?
It is worth the 30 or so bucks you might have to spend on the computer hardware book that you would need to build great system. Between pricewatch.coma and onsale.com I put together a dual pent pro 200 system with 2 scsi 2 gigs, 96 megs of ram, a 20 inch (fixed frequency) monitor, and a ET6000 video card (special rom for the monitor) for about $1050 12 months ago. It's still a very fast system.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA
One thing we did recently at MindSpring was give our customers using the unlimited plan 5 megs of webspace ( there used to be none with this plan ) without raising the price of the plan. We also doubled the commercial webhosting space without increasing the price of that plan. We work hard to improve our product offering as we get better deals on things and improve the way we do things.
I love working for this company.